Plumas County Biographies
Rotheus A. Gray
Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Dec. 2004
This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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was born in Boston, Massachusetts, August 5, 1851. His father, Captain R. D.
Gray, was one of the principal seafaring men of New England, and a descendent
from old Puritan stock�Edward Gray of the Mayflower being his ancestral
progenitor. Captain Gray married a Miss Maria Nolan, daughter of Captain Nolan,
British army, and a native of Dublin, Ireland. The result of this marriage was
one son, the subject of this sketch. R. A. Gray entered Yarmouth Academy, Maine,
to fit for college, in 1860, and left the institution four years after. He came
to California in 1864, and entered Santa Clara College the twenty third of
October of the same year. He remained in the institution the regular four years
required for a classical course, and having completed his bachelor studies,
began his medical course in 1868. He returned to the east in 1869, and finished
his medical education, graduating in 1872, taking the degree of M. D. The degree
of A. B. was received by him in 1874, and of A. M. in 1877. The doctor served
one year in the U. S. naval and civil marine service as assistant surgeon, being
stationed at Portland, Maine. He moved to California in 1874, and is now surgeon
in charge of all the important mines near Greenville. He was married in 1872 to
Miss May Seabury, by whom he has two children: Asa White, born November 23,
1873; and William Henry Moulton, born December 8, 1874.
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from
1513 to 1850. � Fariss and Smith, San Francisco, 1882. p 323